Spring Zodiacal Light

Submitted by:
Carol Lakomiak at Sun Oct 6 05:34:01 2002 UTC

The zodiacal light is a faintly illuminated cone of light near the
horizon, caused by the Sun's reflection off of interplanetary dust.
Clear, dark skies are needed to detect it with the naked eye after
sunset in the Spring and just before dawn in the Autumn. On March 15th
2002 when this photo was taken, Comet Ikeya-Zhang, a setting crescent
Moon and the Pleiades open star cluster were also visible.